Maths Tricks Practice Worksheet
The trick (Choose a trick): × 9 → finger trick; × 4 → double double; × 10, 100, 1000 → slide and add zeros. 37, 12345679 or 111… → magic patterns; reverse and subtract → 1089. Puzzles: find the rule, the total or the leftover days, then check your answer.
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- 1.A girl is 11 years old and her brother is 3 years older. How old will her brother be in 3 years?
- 2.495 + 594 =
- 3.Take 25 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 4.What comes next? 3, 6, 12, 24, ? (a) 36 (b) 49 (c) 42 (d) 48
- 5.12 × 8 + 2 =
- 6.Take 28 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 7.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 8.Double 21 =
- 9.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 10.98 × 100 =
- 11.865 × 10 =
- 12.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 67 =
- 13.The 8th of a month is a Saturday. What day is the 16th of the same month? (a) Saturday (b) Wednesday (c) Sunday (d) Monday
- 14.Half of 72 =
- 15.8 × 9 =
- 16.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 8 6 16 | 18 ? 2 | 4 14 12. What is the missing number?
- 17.A father is 44 years old and his son is 8. How old was the father when the son was born?
- 18.1 + 2 + 3 + … + 18 =
- 19.17 × 100 =
- 20.A piggy bank has 5 coins of ₹5 and 14 coins of ₹2. How many rupees are in it?
- 21.111 × 111 =
- 22.274 × ? = 2740
- 23.51 × 4 =
- 24.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 24 10 20 | 14 18 ? | 16 26 12. What is the missing number?
- 25.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 18 8 10 | 4 12 ? | 14 16 6. What is the missing number?
- 26.If today is Tuesday, what day was it 17 days ago? (a) Tuesday (b) Sunday (c) Friday (d) Saturday
- 27.Take 84 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 28.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 22 ? 28 | 25 19 13 | 10 31 16. What is the missing number?
- 29.I thought of a number, added 5 and then doubled it. I got 46. What was my number?
- 30.9 × 10 = ?0 — what is the missing digit?
- 31.12345678 × 9 + 9 =
- 32.Take 40 and take away the sum of its digits. What do you get?
- 33.11 × ? = 11000
- 34.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): ? 6 16 | 10 14 18 | 12 22 8. What is the missing number?
- 35.39 × ? = 390
- 36.12345679 × 63 =
- 37.9 × 6 =
- 38.The ages of two twins add up to 28. How old is each twin?
- 39.9 × 5 = 4? — what is the missing digit?
- 40.Magic square (every row, column and diagonal has the same total): 10 ? 6 | 3 7 11 | 8 9 4. What is the missing number?
Answer key
- 17
- 1089
- 18
- 48
- 98
- 18
- 396
- 42
- 297
- 9800
- 8650
- 2278
- Sunday
- 36
- 72
- 10
- 36
- 171
- 1700
- 53
- 12321
- 10
- 204
- 22
- 20
- Saturday
- 72
- 7
- 18
- 9
- 111111111
- 36
- 1000
- 20
- 10
- 777777777
- 54
- 14
- 5
- 5
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